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HIGGS BOSON MUON COLLIDER FACTORY: H0, A, H STUDIES * D HIGGS BOSON MUON COLLIDER FACTORY: h0, A, H STUDIES * D. Cline#, X. Ding, J. Lederman, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Abstract models predicted a Higgs mass of 120 GeV. Thus the With the recent hints of the Higgs boson from the LHC evidence for a 125 GeV Higgs is a surprise. and a mass near 125 GeV/c we re-propose to study and We have devised a ring cooler for 6D cooling [2]. The build a muon collider Higgs factory to study the Higgs in key idea behind a muon collider Higgs factory is to be the S channel [1]. This was first proposed in 1992 by the able to measure the exact mass and width in this channel. first author. It is essential to study the Higgs boson for We showed in 1993-1994 that this is possible. clues to new physics. The formation of the DOE MAP In Reference 4 we follow a discussion of the type of program, recent advances in 6D µ cooling methods, physics process that a muon collider exceeds at carrying simulation, and targeting make this a feasible project to out. As shown in Figures 1 and 2 the low mass h0 Higgs is initiate at this time. This collider would fit into the FNAL very narrow. Reference 4 suggests an energy scan strategy site. to find this narrow resonance with a muon collider. THE FIRST STUDIES OF MUON COLLIDER HIGGS FACTORY 1992-1994 The early studies of muon collider focussed on an S channel Higgs Factory (h0) [2]. The major scientific goal is to measure the exact h0 mass and the width in the S channel. There were several workshops devoted to the method to carry out on energy scan to find the very narrow Higgs Boson. We show several of the plots in the initial Higgs studies in Figure 1-2 and Table 1, which gives a strong argument for a Higgs muon collider [2]. Figure 2. Comparison of µ+µ- and e+e- production. THE STUDY OF THE SUPERSYMMETRIC A AND H HIGGS BOSONS WITH A MUON COLLIDER: A/H HIGGS FACTORY In the mid 1990’s a study of the A/H Higgs Bosons was carried out. If the possible observation of a 125 GeV Higgs Boson implies the existence of Super Symmetry in Nature as many think; the mass of the S quarks could be Figure 1. Muon Collider Higgs boson factory: h0 Higgs rather large, possibly at the limit of observation at the boson m ~120 GeV. h0 current LHC. It is still possible that the A/H Higgs Bosons could be lower mass and observable. A muon collider Table 1. Arguments for a Higgs-Factory + - collider µ µ could then study the A and H in the S channel. The A/H widths will be larger and easier to observe than h0. See Figure 3 [4]. Polarized beams may help [5]. We have shown that the A and H could have a CP violating interaction that could be studied in the muon collider A/H Higgs Factory. The mass of the A/H may be With the current evidence for a Higgs Boson with a much larger than shown in Figure 3. One guess is 800 – mass of 125 GeV from the CMS and ATLAS detectors 1000 GeV [6]. [1] and the Tevatron makes it important to study the We have also studied the possible detection of CP feasibility of a muon collider Higgs Factory. Most SUSY violation between the CP even and off A/H states. One ____________________________________________ could either study final states or use partially Prepared for the IPAC 2012 meeting. polarized µ in the muon collider (see Reference 5). [email protected] CP VIOLATION The use of polarized muons can lead to a test for CP violation in the interference between the A and H particles. This could be of key importance [6] to understanding the origins of CP violations. Figure 4. Schematic of a 1.5-TeV muon collider. Figure 3. A/H Higgs boson factory to observe CP violation. CURRENT STATUS OF THE STUDIES OF A MUON COLLIDER There has been a great deal of progress in the development of a muon collider. We show a schematic of the muon collider in Figure 4. The key issue is 6D cooling of the muons. Figure 5 shows the emittance that may be Figure 5. A complete scheme of ionization cooling for a achieved by the various 6D cooling scheme. The muon collider. UCLA/BNL etc. team has studied a Ring Cooler and shown with careful simulation that robust cooling could POSSIBLE 6D COOLING ADVANCES be achieved [3]-other schemes also show great promise. While Figure 4 shows a 3 TeV muon collider a Higgs We show a Ring Cooler for 6D cooling and a Final factory collider may be easier to make (125 GeV). The Cooler that uses a 40T Solenoids in Fig. 6 and 7. need to accelerate to TeV energies is commoner (only to 62.5) while the 6D cooling will be the same. Such a system could either be upgraded to an A/H factory (TeV) or high energy muon collider (multi TeV). One example of 6D cooling can be found in Reference 3. We use a ring cooler made up of solenoids and dipoles. Robust 6D cooling is show in the simulation in Reference 3 (see Figure 7) [3]. Final cooling is also of key importance (Figure 5). J. Lederman is studying final cooling using high field solenoids (40T) shown in Figure 6 (see Reference 7). Figure 6. Final cooling scheme using 50T solenoids Figure 7. Schematic drawing of a four-sided ring using dipoles-solenoids for muon 6D cooling. The ring cooler 6D system is fully described in Reference 3. SUMMARY Now that evidence is presented for a Higgs boson of mass 125 GeV it is time to study a muon collider Higgs factory. The U.S. DOE has started the MAP project along with other labs in the USA. The possible study of A/H supersymmetric Higgs bosons offers the possibility to detect CP violation in a new way. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We wish to thank Gail Hanson for many discussions on this topic. REFERENCES [1] The ATLAS Collaboration, “Combined search for the standard model Higgs boson usning up to 4.9fb-1 of pp collision at √2 = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC,” arXiv:1202.1408v1 (hep-ex); The CMS Collaboration, “Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at √2 = 7 TeV,” arXiv:1202.1488v1 (hep-ex). [2] D. Cline, “Physical potential of a few hundred GeV collider”, Nucl. Instr. And Meth. A350 (1994) 24-26. [3] Al Garren, J.S. Berg, D. Cline, X. Ding, H.G. Kirk, “6D µ± cooling using a solenoid-dipole ring cooler for a muon collider”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 654 (2011) 40-44. [4] V. Barger et al, “Particle physics opportunities at µ+µ- colliders,” Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 51A (1996), 13-31. [5] B. Norum, R. Rossmanith, “Polarized beams in a muon collider,” Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 51A (1996), 191-200. [6] Private communication from Chris Hill 2011. [7] Private communication with Bob Palmer. .
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